Coolstar
Senior Member
That's the $1B rbt was referring to.
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Eglinton East LRT | Metrolinx
- Thread starter W. K. Lis
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JSF-1
Active Member
I doubt will see the Cons willingly fund this project. It's an LRT that runs down the middle of the road in Scarborough so that alone throws up a lot of red flags. As well the Cons are already talking about spending a lot of money on transit as it is, I doubt they are willing to pony up any more; especially for a road bound LRT. They won't cancel it, but I doubt they will fund it. The EELRT will be another Hamilton situation where either the City will need to find a way to fund it alone, the feds step in and force the provinces hand, or we just hope the Cons loose the next election since the Liberals and NDP will no doubt be willing to fund the project.
Rainforest
Senior Member
That $4.4B price tag may be somewhat overstated.
Just like Hamilton LRT. When the province didn't want to fund it and the Feds were not at the table, the price tag was very high. Once both the province and the Feds came on board, the price went down.
Just like Hamilton LRT. When the province didn't want to fund it and the Feds were not at the table, the price tag was very high. Once both the province and the Feds came on board, the price went down.
ARG1
Senior Member
Pretty sure the Hamilton LRT's price tag went down because the feds and province agreed to only pay the capital costs meanwhile the city had to fork over the operations cost, so when they announced the funding deal, the numbers only added up to that cost. Part of what made the previous price tag so high is that it included everything including operations and maintenance because the previous deal under the liberals was that they would pay for all of it.
Rainforest
Senior Member
Ah, OK. I didn't realize the previous price tag included the operations and future maintenance.
rbt
Senior Member
Maybe but the report says it excluded maintenance and operations. It was a Toronto generated number rather than something Metrolinx provided.
I can see some bridge work that this project might incur which will probably be done anyway, but that'll be relatively small.
The MSF ($500M?) is included. Toronto bus type projects often don't include bus maintenance facility costs.
allengeorge
Senior Member
IIRC the two things that increased the price were the SSE subway (which required a tunnel to be built?) and the MSF.
I also can’t remember offhand if the $4.4B was for both phases (ie all the way to Malvern or not).
I would like to see this built; it’s a good local complement to the SSE and would go through some neighbourhood improvement areas.
I also can’t remember offhand if the $4.4B was for both phases (ie all the way to Malvern or not).
I would like to see this built; it’s a good local complement to the SSE and would go through some neighbourhood improvement areas.
smallspy
Senior Member
That's because there are already a lot of bus garages in the GTA, and getting the vehicles to and from it is as simple as making sure that there are roads between the route and the garage.
An MSF for rail transit is a far more involved proposition, as there are far fewer of them already built and as the line needs a physical connection to it - and so it's location is usually less than ideally suited for that kind of facility.
Dan
Rainforest
Senior Member
The MSF in the east end will be needed, and will be useful for both EELRT and ECLRT.
But even accounting for that .. $3.9B for a 15-km long mostly surface line sounds like a lot. That's $260M / km, a lot more than for Finch West which came at something like $120M / km with 2 underground termini.
ARG1
Senior Member
Well it does have a few underground stations planned, but even then, this is way too expensive for what it is.
Coolstar
Senior Member
The Spanish can build cheaper Metro's per km than we can building on-street LRTs.
Rainforest
Senior Member
I think EE LRT and FW LRT are comparable in that.
FW: 11 km length, underground termini at Keele and at Hwy 7, all the rest on surface.
EE: 15 km length, underground terminus at Kennedy, probably tunneled to east of Brimley with an underground station at Brimley, and one more underground station where it crosses Lawrence. The ratio of surface to underground is about same.
H4F33Z
Active Member
The portal starts just east of Midland actually.
ARG1
Senior Member
Actually its less, tunneled to Midland and then surfaces east of that.
TRONto
Active Member
I assume ION will probably be using a lot of rail corridor and it's all at grade which would probably make it cheaper. Their extension is less than $100 million / km.
"The TPA lays tracks for the region to move ahead with its plan to build the $1.36 billion extension that will add 18 kilometres to the ION light rail transit system through Cambridge, along the region’s preferred route."
"The TPA lays tracks for the region to move ahead with its plan to build the $1.36 billion extension that will add 18 kilometres to the ION light rail transit system through Cambridge, along the region’s preferred route."